Adventurer Robert Young Pelton was confronted with the price of commitment while in Afghanistan. "When I was being shelled on a front line north of Kabul, I asked a 23-year-old Taliban fighter, ’Why don’t we dig trenches to escape the bombardment?’

"He looked at me and asked, ’If you didn’t come here to die, why are you here?’" That’s the cost of commitment among believers. It’s putting our lives on the line for others so that they turn to us and ask “why are we there?”